Human Rights Watch

Lebanon’s authorities are employing defamation laws to silence journalists, activists, and other critics of their policies...

Activists are outraged with Friday’s murder of an indigenous “Amazon Guardian” allegedly by illegal loggers he fought...

Masked gunmen killed at least 18 and injured hundreds of Iraqis when they opened fire at anti-government protesters in the...

Authorities in the Western Balkans have arrested 10 suspects of an organized crime group that smuggled migrants across...

Few hours after he was dragged out of his room and beaten in the so-called ''torture cell,'' a Bangladesh student who...

Protests against unemployment and corruption, that broke out last Thursday, turned by Monday into bloody street clashes,...

Organized crime groups have over the past decade killed more than 300 people who tried to prevent the deforestation of the...

Mohamed Ali, an Egyptian businessman and actor, is posting videos on his Facebook page accusing President Abdel Fattah...

Hundreds of women filled the streets of Mexico City on Friday night to demand greater safety for women and justice for two...

Thailand’s anti-graft authority accused one of its own top officials of concealing his wealth by omitting to declare all of...

Police in Tanzania detained on Monday evening investigative journalist Erick Kabendera and have not allowed him to contact...

At least 57 people were killed, including 16 decapitated, when two rival gangs got into a fight and started a fire at a...